Thursday, December 16, 2010

Malakandi






                                 
Malakandi is a great visiting point in Malakandi is a very nice hotel Fairy Land Hotel,

Hazara Division Abbottabad

 Hazara was that part of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) east of the Indus before; Now it will become the part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,a series of fertile plains and terraced or forested hills rising from north of the Grand Trunk Rd into the Lesser Himalaya. Today’s Hazara Division consists of the Abbottabad and Mansehra districts, and since the 1970s the Kohistan district, reaching west from the Indus into the Hindu Raj mountains.

Southern Hazara was a favourite gateway from the plains into Kashmir for expanding regimes – the Mughals, the Afghan Durranis who defeated local tribes in 1752, and the Sikhs who wrested it away during the period 1818–24. After the First Sikh War (1846), Major James Abbott came here as a British ‘adviser’ to the Sikhs; on the Sikhs’ defeat in the Second Sikh War (1849) he became Hazara Division’s first deputy commissioner. Abbottabad,